real unfortunate. But working with Kevin was fantastic. He
is so dialed in. He mixed our first EP, and he produced the
second one, and on the second, we got to work with him
more closely. We have ideas for things and he’d be like
‘Well what about this?’ and random things and we’d be
like ‘Jesus Christ, that’s cool. Oh okay.’ In “Are You Going
Alone?”, which is the track we’re pushing on the radio right
now, we had this basic micro chord sound that was kind of
pulsating like it is now, but he ran it through all these crazy
Kevin Killen type reverb things and he was like ‘What do
you think about this?’ while we were webcasting with him.
He was in like Sweden at the time. We were just like ‘Oh
my god! Yeah, sure.’ But that’s the thing, he just kind of
surprises us. Every time we had an acoustic song, we wrote
with all four of us together, and we had all these things built
around it. He would have all these crazy ideas and we
were like ‘Yeah okay, let’s go for it.’ None of that would’ve
happened without him. He’s awesome. Hearing all the U2
stories helps too. It makes you feel cool.

H M : What is the ‘highlight’ of your career so far?
A D : I’ve always been told in music, there’s a horizon. Most

recent in my memory is in Columbus at Newport Music Hall
with BORNS. That was a lot of fun. That or Cold War Kids

in Dallas. I like big crowds so that kind of stuff is always fun
for me. And we’ve been doing this radio promotion thing in
Vegas. They do this face off thing and we’ve won like eight
nights in a row. We’re like in the hall of fame so in a way
that’s my new answer.

H M : What are your plans for the rest of the year?
A D : We’re always working on writing new music and

working on all sorts of stuff. We want to get out and we
want to tour. That’s really what we want to be doing we
want to [be] playing in front of people. We’re better live
than in any other format so its just kind of what we have
to recognize. For that reason, we just want to be in front
of as many people live. So definitely getting out to play for
people, touring and stuff like that is big for us. But writing
new music, I mean, we’re never going to stop doing that
so we’re just constantly working on new stuff and hopefully
that new stuff carries us. And I’d love to see “Are You Going
Alone?” all over the radio; hopefully all over the country!
We’re starting pretty strong so far so we’ll see.
PHOTO: Clark Terrell
INTERVIEW: Jennifer Boylen